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The Real Problem With Trigger Warnings
In 2016, Onni Gust, a historian at the University of Nottingham, wrote in The Guardian about using trigger warnings to help students “stop for a moment and breathe” during class. Gust described how a slide
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What if we knew when people were lying?
In Season One of the TV show The Good Place, Chidi Anagonye, an ethics and moral philosophy professor, faces a dilemma when a colleague asks his opinion about a new pair of boots. Chidi clearly
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Trigger Warnings Do Not Work, New Study Finds
Trigger warnings—those alerts provided to college students in advance of potentially disturbing material—have prompted an intense philosophical and ideological debate. But do they actually achieve their stated goal of reducing emotional distress when dealing with
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Trigger Warnings May Not Do Much, Early Studies Suggest
For years, trigger warnings have been the subject of impassioned academic debate: Do they protect people from distress or encourage fragility? The warnings, which alert individuals to disturbing material, have been talked about, used and
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Counting Other People’s Blessings
Envy: it’s an unflattering, miserable emotion. And it’s universal. All of us, at some time or another, will experience that feeling of wanting what someone else has, and resenting them for having it. Of course
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Eating From a Shared Plate Encourages Cooperation
President Donald Trump’s recent summit with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jung-un ended in embarrassing failure, and Trump’s occasional attempts to forge deals with Congressional Democrats have usually gone just as poorly. New research points